The Tourism Studies
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Volume 28, Issue 1
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  • Hotel Asset Management and Governance Challenge in the U.S. Hotel Industry
    Keiko TAO, Takayuki SHOJI
    2016 Volume 28 Issue 1 Pages 45-55
    Published: 2016
    Released on J-STAGE: April 01, 2017
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.18979/jitr.28.1_45
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    This paper focuses on the U.S. hotel industry as a precedent case of governance challenge arisen from the separation of real estate ownership and hotel operation, and provides theoretical framework to understand the hotel asset management which has evolved in the past decades. After some legal disputes from 1990s and the development of hotel asset management professions, hotel owners obtained the power to terminate and shorten the contracts. Considering the changing nature of hotel real estate ownership, however, hotel asset managers are expected to act as trustees for all stakeholders, not just to assure the fiduciary responsibilities to hotel owners.
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  • The Significance of the Sociological Approach to Tourism Studies
    Reconsidering MacCannell’s Tourist Theory
    Miki KURIHARA
    2016 Volume 28 Issue 1 Pages 57-68
    Published: 2016
    Released on J-STAGE: April 01, 2017
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.18979/jitr.28.1_57
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    The purpose of this paper is to show the significance of the sociological approach to tourism studies through reconsideration of Dean MacCannell’s “tourist” theory. The most significant contribution of his study to a sociology of tourism is that he regards tourists as agents to construct social solidarity in post-industrial society. He argues that, by experiencing other societies through sightseeing, tourists promote differentiation between post-industrial western society and pre-industrial non-western society and in doing so construct their collective identities. Despite some objections made to his arguments, his analysis of tourists is useful in that it sheds light on processes of localization, which is part and parcel of globalizing contemporary society.
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  • Cooperation between Mass and New Tourism in Tourism-based Community Development of Hot Spring Destinations
    From Comparative Analysis of Beppu, Noboribetsu and Atami
    Keiko HORI, Yuriko SATO, Takehiko MURAYAMA, Shigeo NISHIKIZAWA
    2016 Volume 28 Issue 1 Pages 69-82
    Published: 2016
    Released on J-STAGE: April 01, 2017
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.18979/jitr.28.1_69
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    In traditional tourist destinations, cooperation between government, tourism-related organizations and private sectors through local projects is considered to be important for tourism revival. The purpose of this research is to analyze cooperation between mass and new tourism in tourism-based community development of Beppu, Noboribetsu and Atami. The results of the analysis shows that the policy and venue for cooperation in tourism-based community development, support for start-ups, existences of artists and focus on regional problems could be factors to promote cooperation while separation of divisions could be hindering factors for cooperation.
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  • The Tourist Train for Plum Blossom Viewing in the Kairakuen Garden during the Meiji and Taisho Periods
    A Development of Tourism with Train Service in Mito
    Takuya MIYAKE
    2016 Volume 28 Issue 1 Pages 83-96
    Published: 2016
    Released on J-STAGE: April 01, 2017
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.18979/jitr.28.1_83
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    The Kairakuen Garden in Mito that is famous in plum blossoms and is crowded with tourists in every spring. Related to the garden, various train service for tourists have been offered by the railway company since the middle of the Meiji era. The features of its development are; 1) use of exiting railroad by special ticket in the beginning and by temporary platform operation, 2) newspaper company played important role, 3) leadership of the local station manager. This paper refined its development process based on newspapers in local and Tokyo at that time. Although the garden was originally private, it became to a core of the tourism business of Mito, through a relationship development with the train service.
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  • The Issue of Collaboration in Tourism-Based Community Development of Beppu City
    Keiko HORI, Yuriko SATO, Takehiko MURAYAMA, Shigeo NISHIKIZAWA
    2016 Volume 28 Issue 1 Pages 97-107
    Published: 2016
    Released on J-STAGE: April 01, 2017
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.18979/jitr.28.1_97
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    In this research, aiming to get the suggestion about fruitful tourism revival, semi-structured interview survey was conducted. Focusing on the collaboration between tourism-related administrations, tourist association, tourism-related organizations and others, this research examines tourism-based community development of Beppu city which was formerly flourished as a big hot spring destination. As the result, it is revealed that the effectiveness of connection between mass tourism and new tourism is starting to be recognized by some organizations, though the local government does not adopt positive policies heading towards the collaboration. Preparing the place of exchange information between organizations under tourism-based community development as a policy seems important.
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